September Club Day at Oakleigh began with a downpour before Qualifying, then sunshine, then it blew up a gale, then more rain – why would you live anywhere else but Melbourne in spring?

As I was also doing flags, the report this month is just on the Finals. Thanks must also go to Andrew Daley from AKD Photography – contact him at www.akdphotos.com for copies of yourself or your young pilot in action.

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Andrew Sotiropoulos and Alexander Grutteria shared the wins in the Heats and started off the front row for the Finals, Matthew Duncan and Nicholas Flodstrom behind them, but Sotiropoulos took off at the start and was never headed. Further back in Medium Zachary Marshall started off pole with Nathan Orton beside him and Andrew Ceravolo behind him and the Mediums held this order for the entire Final, while Lachlan Continue reading →

Club championship points (updated 23/9/2017) are available to download

The following driver recently broke the lap record for the Restricted 125 Light class. Congratulations Andrew.

Restricted 125 Light SOTIROPOULOS, Andrew 0:40.933 26/08/2017 Club Day

The Annual General Meeting of the Oakeligh Go Kart Racing Club is to be held this Tuesday, September 19, in the club rooms at 7.30pm.

At this meeting, club members can vote for their preferred committee members that will manage the day to day operations of the club for the next twelve months.

All club members, please come along and participate in this important club function.

Light refreshments will be served.

For Oakleigh’s August Club Day we run the now traditional Saturday Day / Night meeting as we prepare to shake off winter generally come out of hibernation. Winter wasn’t entirely done with though as we raced through a chilly and cloudy afternoon that turned into a rainy evening which livened up a few of the later races. We ran two heats, a pre final and a final for August with the heats drawn random and reverse – my preferred race format for Club Days if anyone cares!

The report this month is a shortened version as I was also doing flags and with a number of combined classes and some wet races towards the end it is all a bit short on details. Apologies if I missed your particularly spectacular passing move, but here’s what I saw:

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Nicholas Flodstrom and Cameron Hutchinson off the front Continue reading →

Club championship points (updated 9/8/2017) are available to download

The following driver recently broke the lap record for the Restricted 125 Medium class. Congratulations William.

Restricted 125 Medium DONNISON, William 0:41.882 30/7/2017 Club Day

As per the Clubs “Statement of Purpose (Constitution) Rule 31 (2)” the next Club General Meeting will be on Tuesday 8^th August 2017.  This is a forum where you as members can come and ask questions of the committee, ask questions about the Club, listen what is happening around the Club.

If you have anything you would like discussed at the August General Meeting please let myself, David Bell (president@ogkrc.com.au), Sam Sera (vicepresident@ogkrc.com.au) or Vern Kranz (secretary@ogkrc.com.au) know and we will have it included in the Agenda.

There will be opportunity to bring up other items on the night when we get the General Business section of the night but if you know of something please let us know in advance.

There will be a working bee on Saturday July 22nd 2017 from 9 am – 12 pm. The track will be closed during this time.

Club championship points (updated 19/7/2017) are available to download